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| 4304224832 | Allegory | story or poem in which elements stand for other people or for abstract ideas or qualities | 0 | |
| 4304233354 | Anaphora | repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences in a row | 1 | |
| 4304235638 | Ananstrophe | inversion of the usual, normal, or logical order of the parts of a sentence | 2 | |
| 4304241217 | Antimetabole | repetition of words in successive clauses in reverse grammatical order | 3 | |
| 4304242366 | Antithesis | balancing words, phrases, or ideas that are strongly contrasted, often by means of grammatical structure | 4 | |
| 4304245196 | Aphorism | brief, cleverly worded statement that makes a wise observation about life, or of a principle or accepted general truth | 5 | |
| 4304247774 | Apostrophe | calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person, or to a place or thing, or a personified abstract idea. | 6 | |
| 4304249426 | Invocation | asking a god or goddess for inspiration | 7 | |
| 4304250290 | Apposition | placing in immediately succeeding order of two or more coordinate elements, the latter of which is an explanation, qualification, or modification of the first (often set by a colon) | 8 | |
| 4304254906 | Assonance | the repetition of similar vowel sounds followed by different consonant sounds especially in words that are together | 9 | |
| 4304256214 | Asyndeton | commas used without conjunction to separate a series of words, thus emphasizing the parts equally | 10 | |
| 4304257604 | Balance | constructing a sentence so that both halves are about the same length and importance | 11 | |
| 4304271108 | Chiasmus | in poetry; a type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first, but with the parts reversed (flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike) | 12 | |
| 4304280934 | Conceit | an elaborate metaphor that compares two things that are startlingly different | 13 | |
| 4304282508 | Confessional Poetry | a twentieth century term used to describe poetry that uses intimate material from the poets life | 14 | |
| 4304291626 | Diction | a speaker or writer's choice of words | 15 | |
| 4304292959 | Didactic | form of fiction or nonfiction that teaches a specific lesson or moral or provides a model of correct behavior or thinking | 16 | |
| 4304295668 | Elegy | a poem of mourning, usually about someone who has died | 17 | |
| 4304297332 | Epanalepsis | device of repetition in which the same expression is repeated both at the beginning and at the end of the line, clause, or sentence | 18 | |
| 4304308940 | Epithet | an adjective or adjective phrase applied to a person or thing that is frequently used to emphasize a characteristic quality | 19 | |
| 4304314021 | Argumentation | one of the four forms of discourse which uses logic, ethics, and emotional appeals | 20 | |
| 4304315219 | Persuasion | relies more on emotional appeals than on facts | 21 | |
| 4304316378 | Argument | form of a persuasion that appeals to reason instead of emotion to convince an audience to think or act in a certain way | 22 | |
| 4304333965 | Explication | act of interpreting or discovering the meaning of a text, usually involves close reading and special attention to figurative language | 23 | |
| 4304336181 | Fable | a very short story told in prose or poetry that teaches a practical lesson about how to succeed in life | 24 | |
| 4304338207 | Farce | a type of comedy in which ridiculous and often stereotyped characters are involved in silly, far-fetched situations | 25 | |
| 4304365520 | Hypotactic | sentence marked by the use of connecting words between clauses or sentences, explicitly showing the logical or other relationships between them | 26 | |
| 4304381497 | Litotes | a form of understatement in which the positive form is emphasized through the negation of a negative form | 27 | |
| 4304383473 | Local Color | a term applied to emphasis on a particular setting, including its customs, clothing, dialect and landscape | 28 | |
| 4304385977 | Lyric Poem | a poem that does not tell a story but expresses the personal feelings or thoughts of the speaker | 29 | |
| 4304388320 | Ballad | tells a story- type of dramatic poem | 30 | |
| 4304393317 | Metonymy | a figure of speech in which a person, place, or thing is referred to by something closely associated with it | 31 | |
| 4304395984 | Parable | a short story that teaches a moral | 32 | |
| 4304396619 | Parallel Structure | the repetition of words or phrases that have similar grammatical structures | 33 | |
| 4304398219 | Paratactic Sentence | simply juxtaposes clauses or sentences | 34 | |
| 4304411012 | Periodic | sentence that places the main idea or central complete though at the end of the sentence, after all introductory elements | 35 | |
| 4304413886 | Polysyndenton | sentence which uses conjunction with NO commas to separate the items in a series | 36 | |
| 4304415528 | Refrain | word or phrase repeated several times within a poem for effect | 37 | |
| 4304419062 | Synechdoche | a figure of speech in which a part represents the whole | 38 | |
| 4304420749 | Telegraphic Sentence | a sentence shorter than five words in length | 39 | |
| 4304421276 | Tricolon | sentence of three parts of equal importance and length, usually three independent clauses | 40 |
